Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students began complaining that they were being treated like so many IBM punch cards. Now prospective undergraduates are eagerly paying $15 to get just that sort of attention. By having information about themselves put on punch cards, they are getting valuable help in choosing the right college. In a fast-growing computerized program called SELECT, a computer digests the answers to a four-part 283-item questionnaire in a matter of seconds and compares the answers with its store of information about colleges. It then prints out letters to the students and their high school guidance counselors, listing...
...sometimes such views come to dominate a particular scene to the extent that they actually express, for the moment, the viewpoint of a significant group of radicals. And this may be a necessary stage. But to fasten on any such stage of growth, particularly when events are moving so fast that we have seen anywhere between three and eight "generations" of radicals since 1959 alone is to miss all possibility of comprehension. Eventually, you may want to draw the line against "disruptive" radicalism, but if you cherish any hope that the university, in Dean Ford's words, will "emerge from...
...refrains. Widener girls in turtlenecks. Papers getting done, not done, done. The heads make well-publicized voyages into Lamont. I sing on the street, badly, "Obladi, Oblada life goes on" but the song, the smile doesn't move your face toward a possibility, no, you're walking too fast, you're hurrying even as you race through this (On to the next paragraph, faster, faster) and you're changing my song. And so, from George Harrison: "I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping...
...will now proceed to tell you what you want to know about Inga: there are three major sex scenes in it, the first and third being gratuitous montages of sexual intercourse between a 21-year-old ne'er-do-well writer named Karl and, respectively, a fast-and-loose blonde and Inga. The middle scene portrays Inga discovering puberty before our very eyes, then proceeding to masturbate. Not having seen any of the recent films which apparently deal in masturbation, I can't tell you how the masturbation scene in Inga rates in comparison, but I thought it was okay...
Honorary Harvard degrees go to Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe ("his good fortune was ours too"), shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ("he trampled where others feared to tread"), and to humorist Cleveland Amory ("his pen was deft, his wit was fast...